El’s Comments (group member since Dec 16, 2019)

El’s comments from the FilmAThon group.

My planned tbr at the moment is:
1. Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism - Georgia Byng
2. Skulduggery Pleasant - Derek Landy
3. Been Here All Along - Sandy Hall
4. Mirage - Somaiya Doud
5. This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
6. Broken - Joseph Lidster

For best, one of the first things that springs to mind is The Death Cure. Aside from a few points, it actually has a completely different plot to the book, like The Scorch Trials before it, but it's for the better. I love The Maze Runner series, but I wouldn't describe those books as 'good'. The films however are genuinely good.

The only movie adaptation that I've ever strongly disliked was My Sister's Keeper. The movie took a book about family, free will, and valuing what you have, and turned it into a generic tearjerker, and also changed the ending to make it more predictable and entirely miss the point of the original story. I'm not sure if I'd like that book as much if I reread it now, but it used to be a favourite of mine, and it was done dirty imo.